Stuff you have fixed today

[JimmyS]

I had steps down into the old bit of the house and a suspended timber floor with no proper solum ventilation so took the whole lot up. Leveled with type 1/ DPM/ concrete slab then 180mm insulation and ufh with a 40-45mm anhydrate screed.

Normally with UFH you need some insulation under the slab for UFH. Have done some big jobs where the slab is big enough that it's U value works with no insulation as most heat loss from a concrete slab in contact with the earth is from the first meter or so around the perimeter.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

There's Nothing like heating the earths crust eh?

Heat rises, though.

 

[DAPPH]

There's Nothing like heating the earths crust eh?

Is there is a thermal insulating paint that can be used as a floor insulating blanket

Something like this ..... sprayed on the floors instead of the walls

Pros And Cons Of Thermal Insulation Paint Coatings

Wondering what the pros and cons of thermal insulation paint coatings are? Here we take a look at everything you need to know about the best paint coatings…

www.homelogic.co.uk

 

[qwakers]

my printer had a broken digitiser.

so i bought a 2nd hand replacement

now fully working touchscreen. (i ripped the top off cos i didn't care about it surviving and needed to know how it came apart....)

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A lot of small jobs.

Both my boiling stoves were in need of some TLC
The Mica film is very important. It ensures a clean burn.

A new wick is not burning nice. So I let it settle then trimed true.
The yellish stuff is Apple scented Bee's wax.

The double burner stove got the same TLC.

 

[sardine]

This how I got it. Tatty, tired and rusty.
I lent it to a local car club, who has now folded, a shame. Becausetheir funding was allicated to a "Current World Event situation."

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My 8" vice came home the other day.


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Not much has changed on it.



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This not olny shows the width of the jaws. But also the very poor finish on the casting.

As a newish item, the finish is terrible.
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In bits.
The blue paint is also poor as well. It is so thin the rough casting parts on the base has now covering.





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The poor finish.


I went over the castings with a sanding disc and removed most of the roughness. But it also brought up how soft the metal was.. When compared to an older vice, or a my Record vice.

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In paint.

The handle was removed cleaned, then refitted. Makes it easier to move the mass about.


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Bling time, well why not?



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Finished.

Might be a fake ?

 

[roofman]

Put a new piston kit into a KXF250 today including mild valve lapping and new stem seals

 

[LewisT]

Replaced a micro-b usb on a baby monitor, through hole style wasn't much fun with only a soldering iron and a sucker, but it does now work.

 

[bourbon]

Yesterday. Dash cam in best mate's daughters car, First one we had done, made a nice neat job of it.

 

[nickk]

A leaky power steering pipe and a C.I. Water feature spout.
The cast welded terribly but is secure.

 

[brewdexta]

The manifold valves on my Velta/Upinoor underfloor heating are 20 years old and are beginning to stick shut so ordered 20 new valve inserts. They were supposed to come with an installation tool, but didn't.

The new valves have a 9mm hex socket and the old are closer to 11mm so it wouldn't have helped me remove the old ones.

The old are brass, the new ones are plastic and max tightening torque is 3Nm. So found some spare Allen keys, drilled out the ends for the valve stem, and chopped the 9mm key down, which was conveniently the same size as the socket on the Draper torque screwdriver. Two very annoying valves replaced, the rest I'll do later.

 

[DAPPH]

Replaced a micro-b usb on a baby monitor, through hole style wasn't much fun with only a soldering iron and a sucker, but it does now work.

Is your primary trade being a gynecologist ?

 

[brewdexta]

I used to be a gynaecologist.

I only do it occasionally now, just to keep my hand in.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Attempted to turn a bushing today and discovered my lathe has froze up, the grease in the bushings and bearings that is; so I accomplished nothing.

 

[indy4x]

My compressor is now working

Its a bitsa, I painted the tank a few months back but never got round to finishing it off, need to run the plasma cutter plus a few air tools so got it sorted tonight

Didn't have a pipe to connect the pump to the tank so made one out of 15mm copper and a collection of fittings



Picked up a drive belt today and fitted the motor, belt, plumped in the pressure switch and wired it all up




When I sprayed the tank, I plugged the fitting for the drain valve with a bit of wood rammed in the hole, then forgot about it. Now the compressor is assembled and I have an imobile Jeep in the garage I couldn't tip the compressor over to get it out, pump pliers completely failed so manage to tip it over at an angle against the wall and drill as much of it out as I could then fired up the compressor to force out what bits of wood was left, no pictures of that bit

So far only 1 leak, from the drain plug adaptor, have resealed it and will fill the tank tomorrow and see if its sorted

 

[sako243]

The Argocat has always been a bit of a pig to drive because of a crappy throttle linkage. We also find it a bit annoying because it used to have one of those motorcycle twisty throttle things, so just as you pull back on the brake lever you accelerate as well. Anyway an investigation found one of the ears crucial to holding the Bowden cable in was missing - so I nicked a brake lever from my sisters bike () and in a rare turn of good fortune the diameter of the handlebars was exactly the same.

Wee bit turning on the lathe to drill out the centre of some M12 threaded bar and then slit it with a grinder to hold the 90 elbow in place (crucial to keeping the cable in the right place), then chucked some solder in there for good measure. Happened to have a convenient hole in the bulkhead so used that.

Then onto an actual bit of welding and welded some quick and dirty brackets to mount a light bar on the roll cage

And then do something about the cooling for the brake discs - this is meant to take air from a little blower and direct it over the brake discs that do the steering... Not doing much (useful) directing.

A quick scavenge found a piece of piping from a 300Tdi Defender air intake which was just the right length and almost the right diameter. Was perfect at one end and a little small at the other so a tube and some sleeving joined everything together.

Bit of a mad panic but it's being loaded onto a trailer tomorrow and we're off to the Highlands for Christmas and a bit of stalking so lights and steering would be useful.

 

[RichardM]

@sako243 ^^^^ Most handlebars are 7/8" diameter at control end, is the backwards brake lever now your throttle?

 

[nickk]

Finished this trailer,new floor and cross members,plus some plates and eyes for the ram mountings,haven’t worked out the bill yet but bet it’ll be half the cost of a new one.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Alas no before image.
This pot and pan set was steped on by the uncle who was enjoying a beer.
No time to go get another one. so I was asked to try my best.

The loop handles were replaced with OE welding rods. The lids needed tweeking flat.
The pans were made round by dressing them onto drills.

One happy family.

 

[sako243]

@sako243 ^^^^ Most handlebars are 7/8" diameter at control end, is the backwards brake lever now your throttle?

Yes. You have to pull the levers backwards to put on the relevant brake so it's basically a thumb throttle.

Quick test drive and it's far more driveable than the old setup but that might be because it's not broken